Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 78 52
Rank change year-on-year -33 -26 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,289 1,752 3,376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 3.68% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 3.96% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 859 1,038 2,703
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £96,875 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,979 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55,019 44,239 66,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.97% 92.93% 88.38%
Number of salaries quoted 33,006 22,069 51,040
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.07%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 1,180 £77,500 +3.33% 349
London +8 666 £87,500 +2.94% 138
Work from Home -26 568 £75,000 +4.18% 230
UK excluding London -101 524 £70,000 +2.94% 235
North of England -42 235 £70,000 - 85
North West -34 117 £67,500 -1.82% 47
Yorkshire -47 97 £75,000 +4.18% 26
South East -121 97 £75,000 +11.11% 55
South West -67 63 £66,250 -3.32% 40
Midlands -44 58 £67,750 +4.23% 29
East of England -9 36 £67,500 +17.39% 10
West Midlands -5 35 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Scotland -81 27 £60,000 -20.00% 13
East Midlands -54 22 £67,750 +4.23% 10
North East -6 21 £70,000 +33.33% 12
Wales -9 7 £55,200 +24.48% 7
Northern Ireland -30 5 £62,500 +13.64%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.25%) Apache Spark
2 25 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 24 (1.86%) Apache
4 20 (1.55%) Confluence
5 13 (1.01%) JBoss
5 13 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.85%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.70%) CMS
8 7 (0.54%) Appian
8 7 (0.54%) IIS
9 5 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Camunda
10 3 (0.23%) Liferay
10 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.078%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.078%) Strapi
Applications
1 16 (1.24%) Maya
1 16 (1.24%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.23%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 15 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.70%) Endur
3 7 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.39%) SAP FS
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.078%) Actimize
7 1 (0.078%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.078%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.078%) Quorum
7 1 (0.078%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.078%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 717 (55.62%) AWS
2 587 (45.54%) Azure
3 273 (21.18%) GCP
4 232 (18.00%) Serverless
5 170 (13.19%) SaaS
6 121 (9.39%) GitHub
7 106 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (7.68%) Amazon S3
8 99 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
9 97 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
10 66 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 65 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
12 63 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
13 53 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (4.11%) PaaS
14 43 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 43 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (3.18%) OpenShift
16 35 (2.72%) IaaS
17 34 (2.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.33%) Broadband
2 13 (1.01%) HTTP
3 9 (0.70%) AMQP
4 6 (0.47%) Internet
5 5 (0.39%) Network Security
6 4 (0.31%) DHCP
6 4 (0.31%) DNS
6 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.31%) MQTT
6 4 (0.31%) SNMP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.23%) Firewall
7 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 2 (0.16%) LTE
8 2 (0.16%) SSL
9 1 (0.078%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.078%) TCAP
9 1 (0.078%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (14.04%) NoSQL
2 168 (13.03%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (10.47%) MongoDB
4 119 (9.23%) SQL Server
5 65 (5.04%) DynamoDB
6 62 (4.81%) Relational Database
7 60 (4.65%) MySQL
8 49 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (2.79%) Redis
10 30 (2.33%) Big Data
11 29 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (2.02%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.78%) RDBMS
14 20 (1.55%) Power BI
15 17 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (1.24%) Tableau
17 14 (1.09%) DB2
18 13 (1.01%) Pinecone
19 9 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 167 (12.96%) Git
2 121 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 73 (5.66%) GitLab
4 53 (4.11%) JIRA
5 51 (3.96%) TeamCity
6 38 (2.95%) Cucumber
6 38 (2.95%) JUnit
7 35 (2.72%) Selenium
8 27 (2.09%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.78%) Bitbucket
9 23 (1.78%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.63%) Mockito
11 19 (1.47%) Maven
12 17 (1.32%) JMeter
13 15 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.85%) Vite
15 10 (0.78%) Postman
16 9 (0.70%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.62%) git-flow
17 8 (0.62%) LoadRunner
General
1 390 (30.26%) Finance
2 382 (29.64%) Social Skills
3 156 (12.10%) Banking
4 113 (8.77%) Law
5 101 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 67 (5.20%) Retail
8 59 (4.58%) Financial Institution
8 59 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 43 (3.34%) Back Office
11 34 (2.64%) Games
12 26 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.78%) Billing
13 23 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.47%) Legal
15 17 (1.32%) Advertising
15 17 (1.32%) French Language
16 16 (1.24%) Dutch Language
17 12 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 428 (33.20%) Developer
2 332 (25.76%) Senior
3 253 (19.63%) Software Engineer
4 219 (16.99%) Architect
5 162 (12.57%) Lead
6 117 (9.08%) Senior Developer
7 106 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
8 105 (8.15%) Java Developer
8 105 (8.15%) Solutions Architect
9 88 (6.83%) Senior Software Engineer
10 86 (6.67%) Java Engineer
11 81 (6.28%) .NET Developer
12 52 (4.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 52 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
13 50 (3.88%) Lead Developer
14 48 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 46 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
16 44 (3.41%) Principal Engineer
17 40 (3.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 38 (2.95%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (23.51%) React
2 289 (22.42%) .NET
3 259 (20.09%) RESTful
4 229 (17.77%) Spring
5 209 (16.21%) REST
6 202 (15.67%) Spring Boot
7 194 (15.05%) Kafka
8 184 (14.27%) Node.js
9 121 (9.39%) AngularJS
10 97 (7.53%) .NET Core
11 78 (6.05%) HTML
12 71 (5.51%) gRPC
13 66 (5.12%) .NET Framework
14 63 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
15 62 (4.81%) CSS
16 58 (4.50%) ASP.NET
16 58 (4.50%) Middleware
17 51 (3.96%) Django
18 48 (3.72%) ASP.NET Web API
19 47 (3.65%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 359 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 211 (16.37%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
4 107 (8.30%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 34 (2.64%) Algorithms
8 34 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (2.17%) Virtual Team
10 27 (2.09%) Blockchain
10 27 (2.09%) Over-the-Top Content
10 27 (2.09%) Video\Live Streaming
11 26 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 26 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
12 18 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 18 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.16%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.09%) IoT
15 13 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.34%) Linux
2 21 (1.63%) Windows
3 19 (1.47%) Android
4 10 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.39%) CentOS
5 5 (0.39%) Debian
5 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.078%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (48.64%) CI/CD
2 569 (44.14%) Agile
3 516 (40.03%) DevOps
4 477 (37.01%) Software Engineering
5 352 (27.31%) Containerisation
6 301 (23.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 286 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
8 282 (21.88%) Mentoring
9 251 (19.47%) AI
10 243 (18.85%) Event-Driven
11 231 (17.92%) Test Automation
12 229 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 211 (16.37%) Computer Science
14 164 (12.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 158 (12.26%) Scrum
16 154 (11.95%) Technical Leadership
17 151 (11.71%) TDD
18 146 (11.33%) Architectural Patterns
18 146 (11.33%) Roadmaps
19 143 (11.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 456 (35.38%) Java
2 328 (25.45%) Python
3 281 (21.80%) SQL
4 260 (20.17%) JavaScript
5 258 (20.02%) C#
6 228 (17.69%) TypeScript
7 98 (7.60%) Go
8 33 (2.56%) Scala
9 29 (2.25%) PHP
10 28 (2.17%) Bash
10 28 (2.17%) C++
11 26 (2.02%) C
11 26 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 25 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 22 (1.71%) Ruby
14 20 (1.55%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.09%) Rust
16 12 (0.93%) PowerShell
17 9 (0.70%) Bicep
18 6 (0.47%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 221 (17.15%) Degree
2 147 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 112 (8.69%) Security Cleared
4 79 (6.13%) SC Cleared
5 69 (5.35%) AWS Certification
6 51 (3.96%) Master's Degree
7 46 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 44 (3.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 39 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.09%) CISSP
13 12 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.78%) CISM
14 10 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.78%) PMP
15 7 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.21%) QA
2 27 (2.09%) PCI DSS
3 25 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.86%) GDPR
5 17 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.93%) NIST
7 10 (0.78%) NCSC
7 10 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.62%) EMIR
9 7 (0.54%) IFRS
10 6 (0.47%) GRC
10 6 (0.47%) SLA
11 5 (0.39%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 5 (0.39%) SEPA
11 5 (0.39%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 399 (30.95%) Docker
2 16 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 400 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 228 (17.69%) Terraform
3 78 (6.05%) Grafana
4 60 (4.65%) Ansible
5 31 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.09%) Kibana
7 16 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.09%) Argo
9 8 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.54%) Puppet
11 4 (0.31%) Cilium
11 4 (0.31%) Istio
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.16%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 153 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.58%) Oracle
3 48 (3.72%) Google
4 27 (2.09%) Typelevel
5 19 (1.47%) OpenAI
6 18 (1.40%) SAP
7 15 (1.16%) BiZZdesign
7 15 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (1.16%) Splunk
8 14 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.09%) Guidewire
8 14 (1.09%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.09%) Software AG
9 13 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 12 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.93%) MuleSoft
10 12 (0.93%) Palo Alto
11 10 (0.78%) IBM
12 9 (0.70%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.62%) Databricks